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graminicola Politis [=Colletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) Wilson]
Classification: Ascomycota, Pyrenomycetes, Phyllachorales, Phyllachoraceae
Distributed widely in Japan. Causes anthracnose diseases in various grasses. Phylogenic and pathogenic specialization was recently found among the isolates on C3 and C4 grasses. Producing acervuli on the surface of leaves, scattering conidia inside by wind and rain. Teleomorph rarely observed in nature.
Characteristics: Plant pathogen Symptom: JPEG (Orchardgrass, Anthracnose, 49kb)
Anamorph: Acervulus with many setae, producing conidia of single cell, hyaline to pale yellow, falcate to fusiform, tapered toward both ends, 23.5-29 x 3.5-5 um in size. Apressorium brown, irregular-shaped in edge, 17.5-30 x 12.5-14 um in size.
Herbarium specimen in NIAES
|Specimen No.||Scientific name||Host name||Host scientific name||Symptoms||Geographical origin||Collected date||Collector|
|108-1-91||Colletotrichum graminicola||Rough-stalk meadow||Poa?||Anthracnose||Nishinasuno, Tochigi||1961.11.23||Tominaga, T.|
|261-2-1||"||Orchardgrass||Dactylis glomerata||"||Shiojiri, Nagano||1962.8.10||"|
(Described by Tsukiboshi, T., NIAES, Microbial Systemtics Lab., 2002)
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